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This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on June 24, 2020.

Above: Tre’mall McGee - photo courtesy of Tiffany McGee

This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on June 16, 2020.

Who shot Tre’mall McGee?

Editor’s Note: The following email, which was shared with Daryl Khan, is from an individual currently incarcerated in Angola. It has been lightly edited for clarity and the author's identity has been withheld for fear of retribution. This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.

Editor’s note: Many of the women interviewed for this story requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. They said they are worried about what would happen to their loved ones on the inside for their speaking out or revealing their correspondence. This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.

This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.

They won’t give his name. They won’t give his age, either. Or any other identifying information other than that he is a male and was in custody at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana. Sent to a hospital for a drug overdose, he was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Helen Frazier, the mother of Jordan Frazier, holds up a Christmas tree ornament memorializing her son in December. Photo credit: Clarissa Sosin

By Daryl Khan and Clarissa Sosin

This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.

By Daryl Khan and Clarissa Sosin

This story originally appeared on Juvenile Justice Information Exchange.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The young woman sat on a mattress in the middle of the floor of her bedroom in North Baton Rouge. Open in front of her was the diary she started after her friend, Jordan Frazier, was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge Police officer during a traffic stop. The entry was dated June 27, 2017, just more than a week after his death.

NEW YORK — The story might sound familiar. A white couple, Harry and Doris Hopper, residents in a quiet suburb of Macon, Georgia, urgently called the police one evening to report a crime. Someone had broken into her car and stolen her handgun, a .22 caliber pistol, from the glove compartment. The police, two officers, arrived and asked Doris Hopper if she could identify the thief. It was a young black man, she said.